I had a go with the driver loader, with mixed results. The drivers load and I can scan and see access points (yay!) but unfortunately trying to set the essid results in either a segfault or kernel panic (boo!).

I'll try it with another kernel at some point. Any one else had any luck?_________________Acer TM80x - Manual

A friend of my and myself where thinking to write a complete 'How to install gentoo on a acer 800' Guide. For installing gentoo on a acer, and have averything working after the installation. Is this topic enough for most people or would a guide be a good idea.

This thread is being incredibly useful -used it several times to get my TM800 up and running- but there is more info scattered around some other places -see links to several people's guides in tuxmobil.org, for instance-

A guide that would sum everything up would be wonderful, a dream come true But lots of time and work too!

A friend of my and myself where thinking to write a complete 'How to install gentoo on a acer 800' Guide. For installing gentoo on a acer, and have averything working after the installation. Is this topic enough for most people or would a guide be a good idea.

I think, if you look at the next post ahead of you, that one big thread is enough, because you can find all information in one place and not scattered around. This was the original purpose of this thread.

But if you want to make a guide, go ahead, maybe you get something i missed. I will definetly link to it !! But i would like to ask you to keep me up to date with your work..._________________have fun

I got the Toshiba M30 laptop and all things are working execpts X but I am still testing.

- wlan was easy, but you have to use driverloader from linuxant.
- I don't use pcmcia but it should work.
- Sound should also works (will test it if I get X running)
- acpi is working (thank for the speedfreqd tip)

For some reason the builtin microphone does not seem to work on the tm 800, using kernel 2.4.22-gentoo-test-r1.

I simply started gnomemeeting (and used the setup wizard, err druide)and recording will not work. I tried turning the microphone on using aumix which didn't seem to help. I chose /dev/sound/dsp as recording device and /dev/mixer as recording mixer (which both exist).

Anybody got it to work? It used to work under suse with 2.4.20-suse without any problems.

Software suspend (suspend to disk / hibernate) actually works really well in 2.6.0-test11 on the travelmate 800. Please read the whole post, there's a quiz at the end
[edit] and even a solution now! [/edit]

To activate it, simply

Code:

echo 4 > /proc/acpi/sleep

It will suspend to your swap partition by default. To resume, you need to tell the kernel where it should read the resume image from as a kernel option:

Code:

resume=/dev/<your-swap>

It is easiest to add this option to your boot manager of course. The kernel will boot normally if it doesn't find the resume image there, so it doesn't do any harm to add this option.

I basically have everything compiled into the kernel. I only have the usb stuff and sd_mod (scsi disk support) as modules. None of the usb stuff will work after the resume, so you have to reload those modules by doing either:
(if you have hotplug installed)

which magically suspends to disk, and after resuming simply restarts hotplug. It works. Find your own way to make it runnable as a user (no, setuid does not work with shell scripts as I had to find out, due to security reasons).

Note that there are a couple of things that I either don't have in my kernel or haven't tried yet whether they survive the ruseme. These are pcmcia, firewire, irda, linuxant wlan, bluetooth, the sd_mod module, parport, tv-out - I guess that's it.

Another note: There's also the /sys/power/state interface. Supposedly suspending to disk should work like this:

Code:

echo disk > /sys/power/state

... but it doesn't do anything. Neither do "standby" nor "mem". Any ideas?

A quiz (or rather a question): I use an external usb hard drive. Its block device can be referenced as /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 usually. Unfortunately, each time I reload the usb modules (or re-plug the device, for that matter) the host-nr increases by 1, meaning after the first resume it will be under /dev/scsi/host2/...
You can imagine that it is quite hard to get autofs or supermount (I don't want to have to mount it myself all the time) to look at the right host.
So is there any block device that I can reference that does not change each time I resume? Or is there any other way of doing this *without* writing some scripts (I know that it would be fairly easy to keep track of the "x" in hostx)? I want a general solution and not one that works for my special purpose...

[edit] Well I just noticed that somehow we still have the old (?) /dev/sdax way of referencing scsi devices/partitions. So I can simply use that, it doesn't change. Great! [/edit]

I tried installing hardware 3d acceleration today. I looked at the various tutorials from the first post in this thread, unfortunately they all contain very different information on how to do this. Some of them are about 6 months old already.

So if any of you who actually got it working with a 2.6 kernel (test11 here) were so kind and would tell me again what I need to do to make it work, that'd be so awfully nice

Compiling agp, agp-intel, drm (and radeon as module), then emerging ati-drivers (and of course changing xf86config using fglrxconfig) as I concluded from the first post in this thread did not work for me. I don't quite remember the xfree error message (it worked, just no 3d accel) from the log because I've tried so many other things by now

I then tried playing with xfree-drm. Do I need that? I couldn't figure it out.

Anyway, a little step-by-step with all the important stuff would be nice. I think my xfree86config is fine by now.

Got it working now, too... I didn't change the link /usr/src/linux before emerging the ati-drivers.
By the way, what kind of a 3d performance are you all getting? I'm getting around 1900 fps in glxgears (24 bit, default size of glxgears window), with this config: